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Show SOLDIERS IN FRANCE HOT TIW PEACE THEYARE RAPIDLY DRIVING THE HUNS BACK FROM BELGIUM AND FRANCE. Great Wedge Being Driven by Allies in Flanders Now Seriously Threatens Tenure of the Enemy of Positions Posi-tions in North Belgium. Paris. The entente forces in Belgium Bel-gium and France continue successfully to drive the enemy before them. In Belgian Flanders the advance is somewhat some-what rapid, but on all the sectors in France the Germans are fighting with desperation to bold back their forces. Since the morning of October 14 the allies have taken 12,000 prisoners and more tliau 100 guns in the operations in Belgium. In addition to occupying Menin, the British have entered Wer-vicq Wer-vicq and are standing on the right bank of the Lys. The great wedge that is being driven by the Belgian, British and French troops in Flanders now threatens seriously seri-ously the tenure by the enemy of many positions in north Belgium from the Lys river to the sea, including his submarine and other bases uloag the coast, while -to the south the Lille salient gradually is being smashed, and doubtless soon will receive atten-ion atten-ion from the pincers, which are being oiled for the task of reclaiming this important tract of territory as far as Valenciennes for France. Meanwhile the French and American Ameri-can forces are struggling valiantly forward for-ward in their drive northward' from the Champagne region into the country coun-try over which the Germans must effect ef-fect a retirement to their own border in the event of a final debacle. As has been the case always since the offensive of-fensive began, the Germans are vigorously vig-orously defending their positions, using innumerable machine gun detachments in endeavors to hold their ground. Particularly vicious are the counter-thrusts counter-thrusts that the Americans are being compelled to sustain east and west of the Meuse, where the entire enemy front is threatened with immdiute collapse col-lapse should General Liggett's men crash through the line for material .-.litis. Nevertheless, both ih Americans and French are demanding '.hat their arms be served, and on various sectors sec-tors they are meeting with success. In the Komagne sector further gains have been made by the Americans in the face of terrific artillery and machine ma-chine gun fire, and the" nteural defenses de-fenses and great systems of wire entanglements en-tanglements which had to be negotiated. negotiat-ed. Bad weather has fallen over the sector, and the airmen have been unable un-able to give their usual brilliant assistance as-sistance to the maneuvers. |